the government never took action against bidders at other auctions who failed to pay for their parcels they charged him with two years in federal prison soley for his intent it's evident the district attorney's office wanted to set an example out of him and send a clear message to other activists who might have followed suit before he went to jail to a low quitted the hypocrisy of the legal system that looks locks away students for peaceful acts of civil disobedience while allowing criminal cold barons to live like kings he said quote what a corrupted government is no longer willing to uphold the rule of law i advocate that citizens step up to the responsibility and in the end he addressed the judge directly he said at this point of unimaginable threats on the horizon this is what hope looks like and these times of a morally bankrupt government that has sold out its principles this is what patriotism looks like with countless lives on the line this is what love looks like

and it will only grow tim was recently released to a halfway house in utah after serving fifteen months out of his two year sentence and this recent news reminded me of his awesome courage and willingness to stand up for what's right in the face of so much that's wrong in this unjust world and that is why you tend to christopher our my hero today so he's the hero who's the villain well take a look at this video this is the altar cation that went down just a minutes before fatal subway incident in which a man named key soup was pushed onto a subway platform ultimately pummeled and killed by an oncoming train. it was an utter tragedy but apparently not for everyone because you see for some this heinous death marked a money making opportunity take a look at how the new york post decided to cover it pushed on the subway track this man is about to die doomed discussed in the man who took this photo our

omar abbassi says that he was on assignment for the new york post covering a story and just happened to be on the subway station at the time and of course he maintains there was nothing he could do take a look at how he defended himself. sort of like. in the distance of the approaching train and the only thing i could think off at that time was the driver with my camera flash. right he was snapping photos to alert the train conductor not sure if that story really sticks look we don't know whether the photographer was thinking about the safety of the man or if like most tabloid photographers he was just looking out for himself and bringing in those big bucks but one thing is clear the new york post decision to make that photo the cover story coupled with their crap you know the one to one of those insensitive despicable headlines is tasteless and downright an ethical but this isn't new territory for this classy publication

check out some of their other despicable front cover features look at this one document dennis piece of and this one crazy stocks like a hooker's drawers up and down up. i don't really have many words for that one you see this paper bodies everything people hate the news media business and you know what i don't blame them it represents journalism's ugly sister this insatiable lust garbage that's driven only by the desire for a corporate back publication to line its pockets whatever happened to a moral code to live by perhaps this is the question that should have been asked before making the tragic death of a man look like a poster for an action movie and that is why this tabloid money hungry new york post paper is today's villain. just yesterday i'll jury and born new york man pled guilty to ten counts of terror

and hate crime charges for plotting to blow up a manhattan synagogue twenty seven year old augmented ferrari was arrested back in may two thousand and eleven in a weapons bind sting sadly he's not the first case of entrapment this plea marks the first conviction on state level terror charges put in place following september eleventh so here to talk more about this case and more instances of federal entrapment are to our producer andrew blade abbi what's going on and. so tell us more about all metaphor and why it's different than other entrapment cases here. for starters this is the first time we've seen at least in new york state where he was tried on state level terrorism charges now in new york as recently as october we saw a big would be terrorism plot foiled by the n.y.p.d. along with the assistance of the f.b.i. but in all these cases we've seen there's been countless going back to september eleventh we always see the f.b.i. or not always but a good number of times the f.b.i. has a very very hands on approach about busting up these criminals and but this instance

we did see the n.y.p.d. actually follow through from start to finish and as the f.b.i. would do on a federal level this time they actually took matters into their own hands and more or less coach someone into initiating some sort of terror plot so while we do have someone who admitted that yes i did maybe want to do some some harm and you got to wonder whatever happened if if the n.y.p.d. hadn't said oh here take all of these guns and grenade in hundred fifty rounds of ammunition and worry about paying us later and talk specifically about his mental state and also kind of the deposit back in this are able to that's one thing that really big here was and we've seen too much of this lately but here this man for i i'm sorry he if if you listen to his attorney he's twenty seven now and since around age fourteen he's been in and out of hospitals mostly mental offices. roughly thirty to forty times he's been considered

a suicidal hazard to himself and if the n.y.p.d. was investigating him for nine months which they were eight i'm sorry but if they were trailing him for eight months building up a case and following along and coaching him into committing a act of terror at least hatching this plot you would think that they would have done enough investigating to know that he has like a serious history of mental issues and perhaps it wasn't the best idea to coach him into trying to blow up a series of churches and synagogues but that's just me i don't know if you know yeah well it was like this is kind of recurring where we have you mentally deranged people and i think you're saying this earlier but he put a deposit for one hundred dollars down to buy the equipment so you had to show how simple and how stupid it was that the n.y.p.d. was able to bust him they after you know leading him on for a few months and according to his supporters the confidential informant or the undercover officer that was working for the n.y.p.d. be friended him over the course of the seven or eight months and actually atlanta money gave them rides to doctor's offices and stuff like that but then when it came

down to actually saying oh hey you remember how you wanted to blow up churches by the way we have all those explosives for you they brought him to a car and they said ok we'll just give us one hundred dollars down payment and with that hundred dollars we're going to give you four semiautomatic pistols a grenade and a handful of ammunition which i mean i'm no i'm no weapons expert but i think we usually know more than i was also he meant like he was going to pay them after he blew up the church or the sign exactly and it just raises the question you know knowing that the threat of terrorism in this country nine eleven aside or no including nine eleven you're more likely to die of a terrorist attack in this country than you are to suffocate in bed when it's your marine life and it's to write that i mean why is the f.b.i. and these law enforcement agencies spending so much of our resources taxpayer resources to to manifest these threats to continue setting up these entrapment case it really should be that much of a surprise because if you look at the cia and you look at what a lot of commentators say. about the current war overseas is that the more and more drones you put in the skies over pakistan were just breeding anti-american

terrorists they were actually recruiting for al qaeda by creating like our own just acts that don't need to happen that's exactly what we're doing here we're winning the war on terror but we're fighting yourselves like it's it's a win win situation we're going to win no matter what i mean to me it seems like we're just trying to justify the domestic front of the war on terror and justify these kind of agree just surveillance state surveillance apparatus that's growing by the day by saying look look i mean people are you know plotting terror and that we were told regularly oh no this threat is real this like if you if you go on google in the go do a new search for this threat is real in and search for terrorism in counterterrorism experts going back to the last decade you're going to hear it time and time again in so many different arenas but if you also go back and look at the f.b.i. there was a great great study that came out by mother jones last year where the last five hundred or so terrorism related f.b.i. cases were instigated in around half of them by agent provocateur the author of it's only half i really am and another question that i can't help but ask is this

more i mean it seems like they're they're you know seizing upon the most mentally unstable members of society coaxing them with money with promises it seems like the same tactics that would be suicide bomber recruiters use in the middle east to recruit suicide bombers i mean is this a moral thing to be doing if you're asking me if the n.y.p.d. are doing something moral we could be here all day this is the same organization who's been routinely spying on muslim americans for the last several years by any means necessary sending officers into new jersey sending officers abroad to tell you yeah yeah so let's just leave it at a simple no but that's my own opinion right obviously and just to wrap it up you know a recent indictment of american terror suspects revealed that the f.b.i. is actually analyzing facebook the likes and shares now you know data mining our social media activity admissible as evidence for terror suspects i mean so be. sickly anything that we share online anything that we we express i mean it does

that mean that we're now targeted for simply liking something. the government here yes absolutely i don't want to bring this too much into the internet what computer laws really means in the realm of terrorism crimes but it's a very real problem i was speaking earlier twenty or producers about how and you are in timers a fellow from new york city who was recently arrested and confer recently convicted on a bunch of computer related charges and in his indictment the prosecutors call into question a lot of direct statements he made on line in internet chats and e-mails that were nothing but pure hyperbole and he was typing something it's different when we're talking right now people speak differently on the internet and he was making these outlandish claims but when he got into a courtroom they read these transcripts they use that against him so nothing you do on the internet is safe and even if you're joking about something you can easily not not that this may have been what happened here but it's very. troublesome i got this huge data mining operations center and utah now where they can retroactively

take everything that you ever do and now charge you can talk about that longer than the n.y.p.d. thank you for coming on board and blake. if you like what you see so far go to our you tube challenge you to dot com breaking the set and subscribe to our facebook page at facebook dot com on the set if you want to know what i'm doing here bitching going on there follow me on twitter out in martin took a break from my preaching but stay tuned to get an update with the bradley manning case next. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've. covered.

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was his description of how he was treated in solitary confinement were forced to wear leg irons and stripped down naked every night there's more development developments sorry in this case by the day even though the corporate news is completely absent independent bloggers and journalists have been on top of it since the beginning including my next guest lex o'brien journalist and plaintiff for the indefinite detention lawsuit thank you so much for coming on thank you for asking me so let's talk about what you've been reporting on a man who's been testifying quite a few times over the last a week or so can you recount some of the most pointed statements that he's made and just give us an update on what's been happening bradley manning bradley manning bradley manning i mean it was it was really actually very moving testimony some of the stuff has been reported on you know talking about being in an eight by a cage in the dark no a c. in the middle of the desert saying you know to himself that he thought he was going to die in that cage then talking about his experience of quantico with the

conditions of being stripped down and the constant sort of customs and codes of the marines of having to have a detainees guard relationship with everybody he talked about the fact that he wanted to stay strong and he didn't want his mind to go back to where it was in kuwait so he tried to stay active and then you know that counter against the sort of treatment of him for you know if he was reading a book and he happened to glance away the guard would ask him for the book back having to say yes ok every five minutes having to stand naked at parade rest you know for morning call but what really struck me was how honest and i hate to use this word but sweet he is you know the defense would ask him what did you think of your counsellor gunnery sergeant bluntness and this is a guy who is writing e-mails like you know using the word we are deal. like when they took away packages from him who was constantly recommending him for prevention

of injury watch against his forensic psychiatrist who weren't but he was telling manning that the psychiatry actually saying you should be on it and why wasn't you know what was he telling psychiatrist total mind games you know when defense asked him what did you think of gunnery sergeant glenys manning said i thought he was a nice person he was an extraordinary marine i mean just really an earnest young man and really some reporter said really the good soldier. believe all. manning in his defense i'm sorry manning's defense obviously is saying that this treatment on lawful i mean you know especially solitary confinement really breaks someone down psychologically how is the prosecution saying that this treatment is proper and justified or looks you know the defense has to establish if there's an intention or in actuality of conditions that are cruel and degrading the government has to prove by a preponderance of evidence that there was a legitimate objective to how they treated bradley manning dramatically in the

courtroom i don't think i'm alone it appears like they're tanking i mean they are literally serving every single one of their witnesses to the defense and coombs will deconstruct their testimony however what they are appealing to you know in terms of what they're presenting with the judge is regulations the fact that you know these decisions were made according to the book so having a legal rationale for it so that's how they're playing their case and what the how are they deferring the e-mails from the military psychiatrist saying that you know it's completely absurd that he needed to be on suicide watch and have this kind of maximum confinement you know it's one of the interesting aspects of actually watching the trial as opposed to just sort of straight reporting on it because there is a process where defense will say well the seriousness of the charges that was the condition and the defense will ask him a let's look at that and they'll go through these e-mails and what's becoming apparent i mean defense sort of drawing out a. and scape of motive what really was the motive we keep hearing uncommunicative every single witness from the government or the brig he said he was uncommunicative

i think it's best characterized by the security battalion commander robert altman he said that given the nature of the charges against him bradley manning wasn't explaining himself so there's some kind of underlying sense of brotherhood within the military and in the brig that bradley manning was supposed to explain himself and of course you know he had a defense attorney that said keep your mouth shut or sign anything but that really ran counter to the culture with the brick absolutely and you know you're one of the few people who is really covering it completely on top of this case there was just a new york times op ed today that just said you know shame on the new york times essentially for not sending a reporter out to really report on this why and this is just one example i mean of course all across the corporate media this is such a certain case not just because it was over but the implications and also his treatment why do you think the more news isn't isn't there reporting on this looks because they can get away with it i've had conversations with you know major

reporters in the press that the first couple of days of the article thirteen and they talk about objectivity i mean there's good people in the press room i'm not saying that they're all bad they talk about activity but they have you know very pejorative characterizations of a sausage in the press the press room they talk about bradley manning being manipulated i talked to one major broadcast reporter outside about the ten stories you could get from this trial that are important for the public and they're like the public doesn't care so there's this kind of apathetic demoralized view about the role of journalism and how important it is and i think that they've kind of just given up surrendered that's and that's really a shame when you say that the people won't care wolf course they don't know and you're not putting it on a pedestal so how could you know it's kind of like what came first the response but if the media or the people's out that the talk about the press room and the pool how how are you interacting how are you. courting these entries and really getting this testimony i typed in hand written. in hand i want to get as much detail as

possible other people do a lot of blogs my job is to get at the historical record as much detail as possible for also other journalists who might want to do more in-depth coverage to try to scale that out i do that in a computer sometimes i've gone straight into the courtroom and done it with hand and paper. pen and paper. you know there is a certain sense i think that's starting to turn in the press that we're there after the article thirteen they're starting to realize how important this case is the government is trying to pass an official secrets act with the way that they've charged manning and take out harm so all that and we have an espionage act the way it's constitutional is guilty mind you have to prove there's a guilty intent if you take that out it becomes an official secrets act it doesn't matter if you're exposing corruption if you just expose it period you're a spy and how it is and let's bring it outside and the bigger picture here jeremy hammond alleged leaker the alleged four who also was in jail for quite

a long time before even being in charge of the judge in the case is a conflict of interest for what does this really say i mean is this just kind of the state saying look we're going to set examples of all these people to just justify the surveillance what do you think that this means you think it has broader implications of all or some message that they're trying to say first i have actually gratitude for whoever leaked e-mails how does an organization i started was in there. i think yeah you know the question becomes of course is it one class of people simply the one percent of people at the one percent or is it really the complicity that runs through each of us in the society that we live in because these are large bureaucracies it's not like just one class of people that they have you know they want to protect their jobs they want to protect their budgets and they want to continue to rationalize it so i think what we need to look at is the structural reform we need in congress. in these institutions to have them check themselves absolutely yeah i mean it's just amazing to me that we could have this pervasive surveillance state and then the second someone taps into that that's when

the hammer gets down hard we'll have to have you on again to talk all about the n.b.a. all these updates thank you so much for coming out and your words are much can you say your website really could get your car when i got there. thank you so much. manning as we just heard from alexa o'brien who talked all about the bradley manning case definitely check out our website for more updates about the n.b.a. which is definitely a really mind blowing updates on there with the feinstein amendment but right now i want to talk about a really disturbing trend in this country i've ever heard of the term soul to prison pipeline but this term describes the funneling of children out of the public schools and into the criminal justice system and the really in mississippi a town that's currently facing legal backlash from civil rights groups when schools want to discipline children they actually call the police who come to the school in

a rest children as young as ten years old their arrests are automatic the police department's policy is to simply arrest all children that are referred to the agency but this type of injustice is not isolated to one small town in mississippi in states like florida more than twenty thousand students move straight from school into juvenile detention or prison every year and these stats are similar across the whole country if you're wondering why this is only something to do with the fact that in america we treat children like terror suspects now up in police presence at schools adding checkpoints increasing surveillance even tagging kids with our if i did chips to pinpoint their locations and it's all the result of a zero tolerance approach to education all borrowed from the federal government tactics that have been used for the war on drugs since the early eighty's what starts as mere suspensions end up turning into actual jail time and often the schools skips the suspension altogether and just like the racial disparity of higher incarceration rates for minorities the same is true for minority children

who too often ultimately get locked up for infractions that started innocently as doodling in class to being late for school and i'm sorry when your idea of teaching kids a lesson is putting them in and out of detention facilities it makes it kind of hard to complete school doesn't it look i know it's two thousand and twelve and we don't normally equate the education system. as a civil rights issue would it change your mind to know that the national graduation rates for blacks and latinos stays close to only fifty percent every year but only half something wrong with this picture does it the american education system could improve is a gross understatement too often even children with disabilities or low income backgrounds or kids with a history of abuse are isolated and even punished and pushed out instead of given the additional education or the counseling services they need the pulse is applied to public education not only criminalize the stupid things kids are going to do be their kids but these high stakes testing programs that define our education policy

today actually forced forced educators to phase out low performing students just for the sake of improving their overall test scores you know what i think i think kids should be given a chance to learn not thrown in jail because they're late to class i think we need to start challenging the policies of our public schools and absolutely never stop questioning the motives driving the criminal justice system we just stop the school to prison pipeline from arresting the future of this country. wealthy british style. that's what i'd like to go to.

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